I don’t understand where everyone’s getting this 4° rise = everyone dead / no more economy / etc? Obviously it would be a fucking disaster, with rising sea levels, devastated biodiversity and general misery, but no source I’ve seen suggests that “people couldn’t survive” or even “society would collapse”. It would just be incredibly awful, and lots of people (especially folks in poorer / warmer countries) would die. Has the consensus shifted?
Maybe I’m just taking some hyperbole too seriously? But I don’t think it helps matters when people exaggerate the very real dangers of climate change because it just fuels anti-science ‘debunkers’.
Oh, I didn’t fact check the headline, I merely rephrased it to include OP’s correction, yet still somehow make it about the economy. Which conservative newspapers like doing. That was my only point.
I guess you’re right, 4°C won’t kill everyone. But it sure as hell won’t make life easier for us.
I don’t understand where everyone’s getting this 4° rise = everyone dead / no more economy / etc? Obviously it would be a fucking disaster, with rising sea levels, devastated biodiversity and general misery, but no source I’ve seen suggests that “people couldn’t survive” or even “society would collapse”. It would just be incredibly awful, and lots of people (especially folks in poorer / warmer countries) would die. Has the consensus shifted?
Maybe I’m just taking some hyperbole too seriously? But I don’t think it helps matters when people exaggerate the very real dangers of climate change because it just fuels anti-science ‘debunkers’.
Oh, I didn’t fact check the headline, I merely rephrased it to include OP’s correction, yet still somehow make it about the economy. Which conservative newspapers like doing. That was my only point.
I guess you’re right, 4°C won’t kill everyone. But it sure as hell won’t make life easier for us.